The Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company MFA Programs in Acting and Directing present "The Late Wedding" by Christopher Chen, directed by Aileen Wen McGroddy. Performances run Nov. 11 through Nov. 21 at the Pell Chafee Performance Center, 87 Empire
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The Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company MFA Programs in Acting and Directing present “The Late Wedding” by Christopher Chen, directed by Aileen Wen McGroddy.
Performances run Nov. 11 through Nov. 21 at the Pell Chafee Performance Center, 87 Empire St., Providence.
General admission is $15 with a discounted price of $10 for seniors and $7 for students. Tickets are on sale now at Trinity Rep’s ticket office, by phone at (401) 351-4242, or online at www.trinityrep.com/wedding.
Based on the works of fabulist writer Italo Calvino, “The Late Wedding” takes a dive into the challenges of intimacy, longing, and trust in romantic relationships through a series of genre-bending vignettes. From documentary-style tours of marriages across fictional cultures to an intergalactic voyage across the stars, playwright Christopher Chen masterfully weaves Calvino’s second-person narrative style with his signature wit. The play explores timeless themes of the malleability of personal relationships, the desire to be in a partnership, why we search for this mythical person called “the one,” and the exquisite compromise of commitment.
“This play has a bit of a broken heart,” director Aileen Wen McGroddy said. “It’s a fun theatrical journey, but it is also asking serious questions about, what is this thing that we do as people where we decide that I’m going to invest my life in this other person? What does it mean to partner up with somebody in life, and what happens when it falls apart?”
“The Late Wedding “will be Brown/Trinity Rep’s first live in-person ticketed production since March 2020, something that Aileen considered heavily when staging this play. She said that the production will be a uniquely theatrical experience.
“Part of this project was going to be about coming back to the theater after COVID,” Aileen said. “I was asking a lot of questions, like ‘What do we want to experience now? How do we give people an experience that is uniquely theatrical, not something that you can experience on Netflix or Zoom?’”
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